Bug 507769

Summary:	gdk_x11_xatom_to_atom_for_display assertion
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Don Lindsay <redhatbugzilla>
Component:	gtk2	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	11	CC:	casmls, gkhachik, mclasen, pertusus, rdieter
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Description Don Lindsay 2009-06-24 06:27:35 UTC

Description of problem:
Fedora 11's thunderbird-3.0-2.3.beta2.fc11.x86_64, invoked from a command line as "thunderbird -safe-mode", and then used normally, prints many messages of the form:


(thunderbird-bin:5081): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_x11_xatom_to_atom_for_display: assertion `xatom != None' failed

Thunderbird also seg faults occasionally. The two facts may be related. 

I am using Thunderbird to access a remote INBOX via IMAP, and keep 'local' folders in the local file system. This is pretty standard, so I assume the messages are being triggered by some of the emails which I recieve. There is no obvious correspondence - I don't get one message per email received, or anything simple like that.

The Gnome bugzilla claims to have a fix for what seems to be the same bug:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580511

So, it would be nice to have the fix come downstream, particularly if it really is what's causing my Thunderbird segfaults.

Comment 1 Garik Khachikyan 2009-08-25 08:51:53 UTC

# COMMENT

For me as well: thunderbird reacts extremely slow due to these errors.
I also have my zimbra email account with lightning calendar of my account working there - they are loading in 10-15 minute with a high CPU load time and memory usage.

Comment 2 Christoph A. 2009-09-14 15:53:09 UTC

I also get this error:
(thunderbird-bin:8483): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_x11_xatom_to_atom_for_display: assertion `xatom != None' failed

After this error appears ones CPU usage rises to 100% and thunderbird freezes.

I can reproduce this behaviour all the time while trying to open one particular email from f-d:
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2009-September/070675.html

thunderbird version:
thunderbird-3.0-2.6.b3.fc11.i586

gtk2:
gtk2-2.16.5-1.fc11.i586

According to: 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580511

this was fixed in 2.16.6

Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2009-09-14 16:17:24 UTC

again, the error message is just noise. It doesn't change any behaviour. 
So whether you get it or not has no relation to whatever app misbehaviour you see.

Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2009-09-14 16:30:03 UTC

I've just moved 2.16.6 to stable. 

Please reopen if you still see your problem with 2.216.6